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Issue: Frontline Combat #5
Publication Date: March 1952
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Issues: #5 of 15 Issues (16 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Tiny Tot Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/31/1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Penciller(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Inker(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Frontline Combat
First Line: The planes can't dig 'em out!
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In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #5 published April 1952
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #1 published January 1982
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #5 published August 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The EC Artists of the Issue - Severin & Elder

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Johnny Severin; Bill Elder
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Biographies of Severin and Elder, with photo.
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442nd Combat Team

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Penciller(s): Harvey Kurtzman (layouts); John Severin [as Severin] (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Elder [as Elder] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Japanese-American soldiers [Harry; Sergeant Hayashi; others unnamed] (some die); The Nazis [unnamed Medic officer; others unnamed] (villains, all die)
Synopsis: A story about the experience of a combat unit composed of Japanese-Americans during the war. The enemy attempts to get them to come over to their side, but they attack and win, and when questioned, they give a thumbs up and say "The enemy forgot that we're Americans!"
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #1 published January 1982
as 442nd Combat Team [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #5 published August 1996
as 442nd Combat Team [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as 442nd Combat Team [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]page 1, panel 1
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Kurtzman art credits per Alter Ego #119 (August 2013).
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Stonewall Jackson!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): unnamed Confederate soldier (narrator); General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (death); General Robert E. Lee (cameo); Jesse (Confederate soldier)
Synopsis: The Confederate soldier who accidentally shot General Stonewall Jackson during nighttime battle conditions relates the story of Jackson and the brigade he was a part of, and the conditions that led to the Gedneral's demise.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #1 published January 1982
as Stonewall Jackson! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #5 published August 1996
as Stonewall Jackson! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Much of the story is told in flashback.
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The King's Spy

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Penciller(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Inker(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Colin Dawkins (owner of a grogshop, member of the Sons of Liberty); Ron Aston (villain, British spy)
Synopsis: As Aston drank his grog, the owner, secretly a militant member of the Sons of Liberty, bent over the bar to impart some secret information to him, all in the midst of protesting the hated Stamp Act issued by the British Parliament. The info given to Aston revealed the plan to board British ships the next evening to dump all the tea overboard, and Aston assured Dawkins he would be there. However, Dawkins did not know that Aston was a British spy who had cleverly destroyed all evidence of his true birth. But before Aston could impart the tea party plans, he was keelhauled aboard a British ship.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #1 published January 1982
as The King’s Spy [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Story occurs on December 15, 1773.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Front Lines
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letter from (Miss) Margaret M. Credie (who does not like Frontline Combat at all) with extensive point by point rebuttal by Kurtzman.
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War Machines!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Penciller(s): John Severin [as J. Severin] (signed)
Inker(s): John Severin [as J. Severin] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): U.S. Army infantrymen; North Korean soldiers (villains, all die)
Synopsis: The story describes the efforts of American planes and tanks to dig Koreans out of their cave hill fortifications. The Koreans survive the efforts of the war machines, but they are killed when the infantrymen are sent in to finish the job.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #1 published January 1982
as War Machines! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #5 published August 1996
as War Machines! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as War Machines! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Big 'If'!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Penciller(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Inker(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Paul Maynard (death); Max (flashback)
Synopsis: A soldier who is dying by the roadside after taking a piece of shrapnel in the chest thinks about how his life might have gone differently if he was only standing a little to the left when the explosive had gone off.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagComix: A History of Comic Books in America #[nn] published January 1971
as Big "If" [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagComix: A History of Comic Books in America #[nn] published January 1971
as Big "If"! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #1 published January 1982
as Big ‘If’! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8 [1988] published January 1988
as Hvis bare ... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #5 published August 1996
as Big 'If'! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Some of the story is told in flashback.

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